If I'm right in thinking immortality would be undesirable, then the fact that we're going to die is good, because it guarantees that we won't be immortal, which would be a nightmare, an unending nightmare.

如果永生不值得期许的观点是对的，那么我们终将一死的事实是好的，因为它保证我们不得永生，那是恶梦，一场永无止尽的恶梦。

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And we've all been in this, where we know that it's shameful to look at this, just drive on, as Socrates would say " "mind your own business," and yet at the same time we feel, even against our will, compelled to look and think about that.

而我们都经历过这码子事，我们都明白那是不道德的人才看，我们本应继续驶离，就像苏格拉底会说的,“管好你自己的事“,但同时我们就算是违意，仍不得不看，并满脑子想着要看。

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